ABOUT
THE DISC & RECORDINGS:This 1941 M-G-M short subject presented the inner
workings of the studio's music department. The short cleverly
utilizes some of the outtake footage of Judy and Tony Martin's
performance of "We Must Have Music" from Ziegfeld
Girl (1941).

Zing! Went The Strings Of My Heart* (Unused "Swing" Version)
(Outtake)
[Note: The recording date listed for this song may be
a typo - all other sources list the recording sessions
for "Zing!" - both the swing and ballad versions - as
09-16-1938]

Where There's Music* (Finale Medley)
(Extended Version)
Where
There's Music
St. Louis Blues
It's A Long Way To Tipperary
In The Shade Of The Old Apple Tree
Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree
It's Three O'Clock In The Morning
Broadway Rhythm

PRODUCER'S
NOTESFew cineastes would deny that Judy Garland’s
tenure at M-G-M yielded some of the greatest performances
in the history of musical filmmaking. Although it has been
more that 25 years since her passing, the popularity and
aura of Garland’s films and recordings have lost
none of their luster. Most of the soundtrack recordings
from these films have recently been restored and reissued
by Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music. Yet this
collection brings together for the first time 46 recordings
made by Judy between 1936 and 1949, all but five of which
have never been issued in any audio format (the excepted
five are making their compact disc debut here).

Beginning with her M-G-M short subject debut in Every Sunday, the recordings
trace the development of Judy as a performer and an artist. Under the guidance
of Roger Edens as her musical mentor, Judy gained confidence and style with every
performance. The collection closes with Garland’s previously unissued prerecordings
for the intended Annie Get Your Gun production
in 1949 that she could not complete. Many of the other performances here are
from sequences that did not make the final cuts of the films, making this collection
a true treasure trove for Judy’s ever-growing legion of fans.

In
the early 1960s, M-G-M transferred the original optical film studio recording
session master to magnetic tape and it is from these tapes that most of this
collection has been digitally restored. Some of these performances were recorded
from multiple microphonic channels, and where these elements were all still
intact, we were able to remix them to stereo. The remainder of the tracks are
presented in their original monaural form. While most of the recordings overall
were in good condition, a few had suffered deterioration that led to a noticeable
echo effect (primarily recordings from Thoroughbreds Don’t Cry and Everybody
Sing). Certain recordings (including “D’Ya Love Me,” the
first part of “Mack The Black,” “The Girl That I Marry [reprise][outtake],” “I’ve
Got The Sun In The Morning outtake],” and “Let’s Go West,
Again outtake],”) no longer existed in any form other than studio playback
acetates; and these, like all of the tracks on the album, were given NoNoise
processing to remove the extraneous noise and distortion.

For years, pirates and bootleggers have circulated horrendous sounding tapes
of a few of these performances. But the bulk of them were never heard beyond
the studio walls…until now.